From Water To Heaven: The Little Shrimp's Journey To The Infinite || Nitrogen Delivery Pt 2

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2nd part of Nitrogen Delivery project!

The challenge is to make a stable ecosystem with 4 or 5 different organisms perfectly balanced.

The substrate is poor of nitrates and the only constant source of NH₃ is the bottom green plant, however all the nitrates are enclosed in its buds.

The blue parasites absorb nitrates from the plant and fertilize the plate producing bubbles, in this way they help other organisms to reproduce in this substrate.

🦐 The Shrimps are non-simmetrical swimmers unable to produce NH₃ by their own, so they need an external source to fill their body with nitrates and then produce an egg.
Their nervous system is quite complex and elaborates several stimulus with different priorities:
1 [Max priority]: Avoid to damage the parasite colony
2: Eat NH₃ source
3 [Low priority]: Search food

The Killer Algae is NH₃ self-sufficient but doesn't share it with other organisms, on the contrary it could be a lethal trap for the swimmers who get stuck in it.
Its presence tho is very important to avoid overpopulation.

For this video I used a personal mod of the original Cell Lab:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...

Video ➡️ Nitrogen Delivery Pt. 1:
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